I bought a copy of U. City’s own David Linzee’s mystery novel after he gave a reading at the library last year (remember in-person events?) and put it away to enjoy on vacation. Somehow, I didn’t get to it, it got shelved, and I completely forgot about it until recently. By now, he may be well on the way to publishing the next in the Renata Radleigh series. Renata, now in her fourth outing, is a charming main character, a British mezzo-soprano who often sings in St. Louis during the St. Louis Opera season each year. Part of the fun is in recognizing the thinly veiled references to local institutions and people. In this book, however, Renata and her boyfriend, the Adams University PR man, Peter Lombaro, are on an “opera cruise” on the Queen Alexandria II. As always, someone gets offed, and Renata is drawn into the investigation. And as has happened before, suspicion falls on her. But it isn’t just a rerun of other plots, it is an engaging romp. I know that David and his wife, Claire, took the Queen Elizabeth II cruise to Britain for “research reasons.” Must have been as fun as this book. 270 pp.
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